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Title Long history, deep time : deepening histories of place / edited by Ann McGrath, Mary-Anne Jebb.

Publication Info. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
data file rda
Series Aboriginal History Monographs
Aboriginal history monograph series.
Summary "For all the methodological innovations that the discipline of academic history has seen since its birth in Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, historians have on the whole, in deciding what constitutes historical evidence, clung to the idea of the primacy of the written word, of textual sources, and have been satisfied to leave the business of dating and interpreting ancient artefacts and material remains of human civilisations to prehistorians and archaeologists. While it has to be granted that these boundaries have occasionally been breached in some areas, such as in ancient Roman or Greek histories or in art history, debates in the historical profession over issues raised by the evidence of memory, personal experience, and legends and myths, have once again highlighted the value of written sources. True, historians now acknowledge that history is only one way among many of telling the past, but the idea of the archive a repository of written sources is still central to how historians think of what constitutes the activity called research. We imagine prehistorians and archaeologists as people who go digging around, literally, in unfamiliar places to find their treasure-troves of evidence; when we speak of historians, we still think of a group of people prepared to suffer the consequences of prolonged exposure to the dust that usually collects over old documents. The French once used to say, no documents, no history; the moral rule among historians still seems to be: no sniffles and sneezes, no history! ..."--Foreword.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 1. Deep histories in time, or crossing the great divide? / Ann McGrath -- 2. Tjukurpa time / Diana James -- 3. Contemporary concepts of time in Western science and philosophy / Peter J. Riggs -- 4. The mutability of time and space as a means of healing history in an Australian aboriginal community / Rob Paton -- 5. Arnhem land to Adelaide / Karen Hughes -- 6. Categories of 'old' and 'new' in Western Arnhem land bark painting / Luke Taylor -- 7. Dispossession is a legitimate experience / Peter Read -- 8. Lingering inheritance / Julia Torpey Hurst -- 9. Historyless people / Jeanine Leane -- 10. Panara / Bruce Pascoe -- 11. The past in the present? / Harry Allen -- 12. Lives and lines / Martin Porr -- 13. The arch aeology of the Willandra / Nicola Stern -- 14. Collaborative histories and the Willandra Lake / Malcolm Allbrook and Ann McGrath.
Language English.
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- History.
Australia -- History.
Australiens (Aborigènes) -- Histoire.
Australie -- Histoire.
Australasian & Pacific history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Aboriginal Australians
Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania.
Indexed Term australia.
indigenous knowledge.
history.
timescales.
Genre/Form History
Added Author McGrath, Ann, 1956- editor.
Jebb, Mary Anne, editor.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Druck-Ausgabe Long history, deep time . Deepening histories of place
ISBN 9781925022537 (electronic bk.)
1925022536 (electronic bk.)
9781925022520
1925022528
Standard No. 10.26530/OAPEN_578874 doi
AU@ 000054564848
AU@ 000058538277
AU@ 000059645085
AU@ 000059904121
DEBBG BV044060264
GBVCP 1008663409

 
    
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